Health sources revealed to a local daily that the average number of new files opened in the Kuwait Center for Mental Health has increased, due to the increased awareness of these diseases, the effects related to the conditions of the Corona pandemic, and the increase in the population in Kuwait.
The sources confirmed that the three factors coincide with the Ministry’s keenness to expand mental health clinics in primary health care centers, which amounted to 38 clinics in various primary care centers, which contributed to raising awareness of these diseases and thus increasing the registration of these issues.
The average of new files in the Kuwait Center for Mental Health exceeds a total of 2000 files annually, although this number is subject to change, increase or decrease, from year to year, noting that the new files are mostly of patients suffering from chronic mental illnesses, such as bipolar, schizophrenia or depression.
